First American Title Co. v. South Dakota Land Title Ass'n

HANSON, Senior District Judge.

This antitrust case concerns alleged anti-competitive private and regulatory restraints on the South Dakota abstracting and title insurance businesses. Plaintiffs/appellants, First American Title Company of South Dakota and First American Title Insurance Company of South Dakota, contend that they were the victims of a price-fixing conspiracy, frivolous and sham litigation, and a conspiracy to devise and *1442enforce statutes and regulations which served to restrain trade in the abstracting and title insurance businesses, all in violation of sections 1 and 2 of the…